Advance Engineer
- Location
- Walker, MI
- Listed
- 3 days ago
Who We Want
We are looking for an Advance Engineer that will advise the estimating and engineering teams on feasibility of customer designs and ECRs for our manufacturing processes. The ideal person will collaborate with cross functional teams to provide technical support.
What You'll Do
- Review incoming RFQ's and comprehend all customer provided information
- Prepare technical presentations covering all pertinent package content
- Provide technical support to Estimating, Program Management, Finance, etc. relating to product information, CAD data management, contract, and cost model analysis
When and Where
- This will be a M-F position located at our Corporate Office in Walker, MI.
- Occasionally, this may require you to arrive early, stay late, or work on weekends, outside of our regular hours, to ensure we successfully meet customer needs, deadlines, or urgent requests.
What You Need to Have
- Bachelor of Engineering
- Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering preferred
- 5 years of product design or manufacturing experience preferred
- Has high standards of performance for self
- Takes responsibility for actions, results, and mistakes
- Is thorough, accurate, and reliable when performing and completing job tasks; demonstrates honesty and integrity in all aspects of work
- Takes positive action to objectively resolve conflict by listening, staying focused on issue to find resolution, and monitoring progress
- Maintains positive relationships by constructively resolving conflicts
- Uses feedback from others to continuously improve performance and work relationships
- Moves within own and/or other work areas (flexes) to support plant flow
- Works with sense of urgency to meet needs of customers
- Has necessary experience, skills, and knowledge to perform all aspects of job; rotates through all job responsibilities
- Maintains knowledge and skills to perform job effectively
- Has ability to focus on benefits of change and see it as positive; approaches change or newness in constructive/objective manner; views change as learning opportunity
- Looks for good in others; works collaboratively with others; shares information and knowledge
- Is at work when scheduled and ensures coverage when absent; takes timely breaks/lunches; uses time wisely
- High technical aptitude
- Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
- Ability to quickly learn more in depth workings of available tools
- Engineering skills requiring 3D spatial relations, database functionality and relationships
Who We Are
Challenge Manufacturing's mission is to manufacture with operational excellence by empowering our employee-owners. As a leading tier 1 supplier of complex metal assemblies for the global automotive industry, we drive innovative solutions for future mobility. We believe the best ideas come from individual unique perspectives. These ideas combined with the teamwork of industry leaders allow us to accomplish any challenge. Our team members take pride in the work we do and embody our core values of safety, ownership, and teamwork every day; they are the true driving force in our operations.
Challenge is proud to be one of the largest employee-owned automotive companies in North America. One of the many benefits of joining the Challenge team is the ESOP program. This program allows Challenge to give shares of the Company to all employee-owners annually. These shares are an additional retirement benefit that will continue to grow during your time at Challenge. Being part of an ESOP means our employee-owners share in Challenge's success!
Challenge is #QualityDriven and #PeoplePowered!
From Challenge Mfg's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on November 6, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.
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